(16) Getting carried away with 88 early

[Dan.]

From a week or so ago, so I don't remember any reads. Every once in a while it's cathartic to shed the 2p2 STTF nittiness. How nutty was this?

PokerStars Tournament, Big Blind is t30 (7 handed) Converter on pregopoker.com

UTG (t1170)
Hero (t1465)
MP1 (t3985)
CO (t1430)
Button (t1800)
SB (t1790)
BB (t1860)

Preflop: Hero is in UTG+1 with 8[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] 8[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img]
<font color="gray">UTG folds</font>, Hero calls t30, MP1 calls t30, <font color="gray">CO folds</font>, <font color="gray">Button folds</font>, <font color="red">SB raises to t90</font>, <font color="gray">BB folds</font>, Hero calls t60, MP1 calls t60

Flop: (t315) 6[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] 5[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] 9[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] (3 players)
<font color="red">SB bets t90</font>, <font color="red">Hero raises to t270</font>, <font color="gray">MP1 folds</font>, SB calls t180

Turn: (t855) 9[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] (2 players)
SB checks, <font color="red">Hero bets t1105 (All-in)</font>

[aujoz]

i fold pre flop; i fold flop, and i check turn.


what do you think your bet is going to make fold on the turn?

[Dan.]

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i fold pre flop; i fold flop, and i check turn.


what do you think your bet is going to make fold on the turn?

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Club draw, club draw + overcards

[AMT]

very nutty...id either call or fold the flop depending, but id never raise here.

[DevinLake]

First, you need to have a good read if you want to get nutty with 88 here. You need to know how aggressive this guy is going to be with overs. Ie, will he fire multiple barrels.

So, that being said. My preferred line here would be c/c the flop and c/r the turn. If he checks turn, I'll probably bet to take it down there b/c of the draws. But, checking with the intention of snapping off a bluff on the river isn't bad. However, if any A/K/Q comes off, you'll have to exit if he shows interest.

Also, preflop was fine.

[AnthonyV]

PF is completely fine. Open folding or folding to the raise would be very bad. It's level 1, you're still deep enough to get value out of sets, blah blah.

As for the postflop stuff...

You're trying to get people to lay down better hands or hands that are pretty good. In general, in a lower buy-in SNG you should try to exercise the exact opposite strategy. That is, exploit your opponents' primary weakness, which is by and large, their inability to fold even marginal hands. Therefore, the lower buy-in strategy should be to wildly value bet your made hands, and stay away from the fancy stuff.

Your line here asks your opponent to make a play that in the aggregate may be a good play, but that is exactly what you cannot expect him to do.

[BHokie1]

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very nutty...id either call or fold the flop depending, but id never raise here.

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Agry -

You are deep enough to call PF/Flop IMO, but not deep enough to put a raise in to see where you are in the hand. You don't want to bloat the pot and get committed to it, but if you can see a show down cheap, I'd do so.

Folding is fine, but I've been calling the smaller c-bets more often.